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APR'I APR 10 2006
INSIDE:
Fellow student
wants to save
you money
A UNCG senior has opened
Shebazeba.com to help
students find apartments,
roommates, and of course,
cheaper textbooks.
PAGE 3
Free speech still
not free enough
Luke Mclntyre's lesson
from the free speech zone
fight? "The only way we will
change university policy is
through student action."
PAGE 5
Gender and the
Arts
Creative Action: a three-day
event full of Star-Spangled
Girls and Guerilla warfare.
PAGE 6
Track and Field
Personal and school re-cords
are falling at a rapid
pace this season. -
PAGE 9
Campus lousy
with "Morals"
Faux News takes aim at
campus Republicans, Demo-crats
and anyone else who
sticks their heads up.
PAGE 10
ON THE WEB
www.carolinianonline.com
DIRECTORY
News 2-3,12
Classifieds 2
Corrections 4
Opinions 4-5
A&E 6-7,13
Sports 8-9
Ufe 10-11
CONTACT US
ttw_carolinian@holimiil.coni
PHONE: 336-334-5752
FAX: 336-334-3518
THE CAROLINIAN
ESTABLISHED 1919
VOL LXXXVI
ISSUE 25
THEaronnian THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG
www.carolin lanonline .com
UNCG Student Arrested During
Elliot Laffey
Staff Writer
On March 10, a UNCG student was
arrested, along with 23 other students
from various campuses across the na-tion,
during a nonviolent protest for
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
student rights at Liberty University in
Virginia.
Liberty University was the first
of 19 nationwide campus visits for
Soulforce's Equality Ride, inspired by
the Freedom Ride of 1961, when the
Supreme Court's ruling against dis-crimination
was tested.
Matt Hill Comer, 20, at this time
was campaigning to become UNCG
SGA vice president and was arrested
and charged with trespassing, a class
one misdemeanor in Virginia. He is
represented by Soulforce attorneys
and faces maximum punishment of a
$2500 fine or one year in prison.
"Nothing's going to change po-litically,"
Comer said,"until we change
the way people think about these is-sues.
And people's thought processes
are rooted in the prejudices that are
taught to them through religion."
Soulforce is an organization
with a mission against spiritual vio-lence.
According to Soulforce's web-site,
spiritual violence is "the misuse
of religion to sanction the condem-nation
and rejection of any of God's
children.''
Liberty University was founded
Peaceful Protest
by Rev. Jerry Harwell, notorious for his
closed door policies against the LGBT
community. Forty years ago, accord-ing
to Comer, Falwell did not allow
African Americans into his church.
Comer added, "Forty years ago,
he [Falwell] also said that the Civil
Rights Movement was the 'Civil
Wrongs Movement."'
As the student activists walked
onto the Liberty University campus,
they read a statement that started,
"We come to Liberty University
today seeking to foster understand-ing.
Understanding that the Bible has
been used for centuries to exclude and
discriminate. The Inquisitions, the
Crusades, the justification for slav-ery,
the second-class status of women,
and the rejection of the disabled are
all examples of biblical misuse."
At 9 am., Equality Ride first met
at a church in Lynchburg, Va. The
principles of a nonviolent protest
were reviewed, before the group of
about 100 people rallied outside the
university. At noon, when 24 of the
protestors attempted to walk on cam-pus,
they were quickly arrested and
taken to the Lynchburg district jail
building.
According to Equality Ride's
LOGAN YORK/THE CAROLINIAN
UNCG Student Matt Hill Comer, who was arrested for trespassing with
other protestors at Liberty University, Va.
website, 34 young adult students,
have taken a semester off to visit 19
schools across the nation in a period
of 51 days.
The second stop for Equality
Ride was Pat Robertson's University.
Robertson, a colleague of Falwell's,
also decided to have the group ar-rested.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Equality
Ride faced even more arrests, though
in both occurrences the number ar-rested
was much less than the 24 at
Liberty University.
Texas A&M University, which has
the largest military cadet program, al-lowed
the protestors on campus. No
arrests were made. Military schools
are on Equality Ride's agenda because
they too have a policy to turn away
openly gay students.
"For a gay or lesbian student,"
Comer said, "the fact that someone
totally unaffiliated would risk being
arrested - that's going to mean a lot to
those students who have no voice on
these campuses."
Comer said the catch phrase for
Equality Ride is, "Learn from history
and end religious oppression."
He added, "If Jesus Christ had
been the Chancellor of Liberty Uni-versity,
he would've let us on campus
that day."
The protest aired March 25,
on MTV. More information about
Equality Ride can be found at:http://
www.equalityride.com
Campus Policy Battle over
Free Speech Zones Ends
Janlne Camara
Staff Writer
Freedom of expression has been
synonymous with college and uni-versity
settings in America for almost
half a century. The heritage of college
protest finds its roots in demonstra-tions
at Howard University where
late Black Panther Stokley Carmi-chael
attended school, Columbia
University where students protested
against the Vietnam War and now at
UNCG where students last November
and this past January demonstrated
against university policy.
During Mid-November of last
year, Allison Jaynes, head of UNCG's
College Libertarians, organized a
peaceful protest consisting of about
40 people on the lawn of Jackson Li-brary.
The organization was assem-bled
in dissent against the university's
Facility Use Policy, which detailed
that outdoor assemblies by affiliated
or unaffiliated groups must convene
in two "free speech and assembly ar-eas,"
located on the east lawns of the
Elliot University Center and the Foust
Building. The College Libertarians
founded their protest on their belief
that protest zoning is repressive.
"We felt that [university policy]
[was] unduly restrictive, especially
compared to other colleges and uni-versities
around the country," said
Jaynes. She and fellow UNCG stu-dent
Robert Sinnott were charged
with Student conduct code violations
after refusing to leave the protest area.
Their charges were dropped on Janu-ary
13, 2006 after the Foundation
The Human Race brings
communities together to
help raise money
Tye Harris
Staff Writer
The Volunteer Center of Greens-boro
put on their 12th annual Hu-man
Race on Saturday March 25 at
the Grimsley High School stadium.
The Human Race, whose theme is
"Bringing the Community Together"
is a 5k run/walk held to raise money
for local nonprofit organizations. The
event started at 9:30am on March 25
and lasted until noon that day.
The Human Race welcomes
children, adults, families and anyone
else that wants to support their cause.
The event raises money for over 135
nonprofit organizations. These orga-nizations
keep 75%-85% of the mon-ey
raised, while the rest goes to The
Volunteer Center of Greensboro.
This year's race was success-ful,
with a good turnout and a lot of
money raised.
"We had at least 4,500 people
come out, which we think was very
good, considering it was cooler this
year than last" said Amy Lytle, Assis-tant
Director at the Volunteer Center
of Greensboro.
"We think we raised between
$230,000 and $240,000, which, again,
is very close to what we raised last
year, and money continues to come
in every day," added Lytle.
This year's race will help over
128 nonprofit organizations, accord-ing
to Lytle. However as more money
is counted, the race will benefit even
more nonprofit organizations.
For last year's race, around 5,500
people participated, raising approxi-mately
$250,000 for the 135+ non-profit
organizations.
The event started at 9:30 a.m.
with an opening ceremony. The run-ners
were the first to start the race,
with the walkers starting a few min-
SEE HUMAN RACE PAGE THREE
for Individual Rights in Education
(FIRE), a civil rights organization
that protects the rights of students on
college campuses, became involved
and wrote to Chancellor Sullivan and
University Counsel.
On November 14, 2005, two
days before the protest, school offi-cials
began reviewing the Facility Use
Policy. This came after University
Counsel Lucien "Skip" Capone noti-fied
the Chancellor in September of
a recent legal decision at the Univer-isty
of Maryland that raised questions
about the policy. Capone and other
university officials, as well as students
Ryan Radford and Matt Hill Comer
were part of a task force formed by
the Chancellor to modify the policy.
"The primary difference is that
under the old policy if students want-ed
to have an assembly they needed to
go to the designated areas and notify
the Director of Student Life...now
they don't. The only thing they have
to do is notify the police 12 hours
ahead of time," said Capone.
The old policy also required stu-dents
to produce written notification
to the Office of Student Life if they
wanted to protest somewhere besides
the established Free Speech zones.
The new policy was approved by the
Chancellor two weeks ago.
"I did it more-so for other stu-dents,"
said Comer of his involvement
with the taskforce. "I do feel strongly
that free speech should be honored
and never abridged, and I'm just glad
that the university now has a policy
that is going to be a good balance by
the way student's right to assemble
and another student's right to receive
an education," continued Comer.
On January 26, 2006, the Col-lege
Libertarians joined forces with
the College Republicans and College
Democrats to protest University Pol-icy
again.
"We were simply out there to
show that groups of different ideo-logical
leanings could come together
for a common cause...I think we'll
see more diversity of groups coming
out to express themselves," said Jaynes
of the policy change.
Results of
Second SGA
Election In
Melissa Kurland
Staff Writer
A second Student Goverment Asso-ciation
election resulted in no change
from the first, with Jonae Wartel win-ning
the Presidency and Vice-Presi-dential
incumbant Donald Hughes
retaining his position.
The UNCG student government
association re-posted the 2006-2007
election after the initial results were
called into question. According to the
SGA's public statement,
"The UNCG Student government
Association's Student Senate decided
on March 14, 2006 to hold new elec-tions
based upon evidence that not
all students had been given the equal
opportunity in which to use their
voice in choosing their next student
leaders."
Reportedly during the initial elec-tion
graduate students were unable to
cast their vote due to internet error.
"In order to get the word out, a
campus wide e-mail was sent out,
flyers were hung, a message was sent
in organizational announcements,
the Carolinian did an article, and
sandwich boards were painted," said
Angie Wohner in the SGA's Monthly
Report
Regarding the SGA's controversial
meeting two weeks ago, which was
filled with racial tension, the SGA
public statement said,
"Although there were issues regard-ing
race, issues on which we continue
to work and create meaningful, posi-tive
and forward-moving dialogue,
the decision for holding new elections
was in no way related to those racial
matters."
There were four candidates for the
SGA presidency, two for vice presi-dency,
three for senior senators, seven
for junior senators, six sophomore
senators, and three residential student
senators.
Running for vice president was orig-
SEE SGA PAGE TWO
_

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APR'I APR 10 2006
INSIDE:
Fellow student
wants to save
you money
A UNCG senior has opened
Shebazeba.com to help
students find apartments,
roommates, and of course,
cheaper textbooks.
PAGE 3
Free speech still
not free enough
Luke Mclntyre's lesson
from the free speech zone
fight? "The only way we will
change university policy is
through student action."
PAGE 5
Gender and the
Arts
Creative Action: a three-day
event full of Star-Spangled
Girls and Guerilla warfare.
PAGE 6
Track and Field
Personal and school re-cords
are falling at a rapid
pace this season. -
PAGE 9
Campus lousy
with "Morals"
Faux News takes aim at
campus Republicans, Demo-crats
and anyone else who
sticks their heads up.
PAGE 10
ON THE WEB
www.carolinianonline.com
DIRECTORY
News 2-3,12
Classifieds 2
Corrections 4
Opinions 4-5
A&E 6-7,13
Sports 8-9
Ufe 10-11
CONTACT US
ttw_carolinian@holimiil.coni
PHONE: 336-334-5752
FAX: 336-334-3518
THE CAROLINIAN
ESTABLISHED 1919
VOL LXXXVI
ISSUE 25
THEaronnian THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG
www.carolin lanonline .com
UNCG Student Arrested During
Elliot Laffey
Staff Writer
On March 10, a UNCG student was
arrested, along with 23 other students
from various campuses across the na-tion,
during a nonviolent protest for
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
student rights at Liberty University in
Virginia.
Liberty University was the first
of 19 nationwide campus visits for
Soulforce's Equality Ride, inspired by
the Freedom Ride of 1961, when the
Supreme Court's ruling against dis-crimination
was tested.
Matt Hill Comer, 20, at this time
was campaigning to become UNCG
SGA vice president and was arrested
and charged with trespassing, a class
one misdemeanor in Virginia. He is
represented by Soulforce attorneys
and faces maximum punishment of a
$2500 fine or one year in prison.
"Nothing's going to change po-litically,"
Comer said,"until we change
the way people think about these is-sues.
And people's thought processes
are rooted in the prejudices that are
taught to them through religion."
Soulforce is an organization
with a mission against spiritual vio-lence.
According to Soulforce's web-site,
spiritual violence is "the misuse
of religion to sanction the condem-nation
and rejection of any of God's
children.''
Liberty University was founded
Peaceful Protest
by Rev. Jerry Harwell, notorious for his
closed door policies against the LGBT
community. Forty years ago, accord-ing
to Comer, Falwell did not allow
African Americans into his church.
Comer added, "Forty years ago,
he [Falwell] also said that the Civil
Rights Movement was the 'Civil
Wrongs Movement."'
As the student activists walked
onto the Liberty University campus,
they read a statement that started,
"We come to Liberty University
today seeking to foster understand-ing.
Understanding that the Bible has
been used for centuries to exclude and
discriminate. The Inquisitions, the
Crusades, the justification for slav-ery,
the second-class status of women,
and the rejection of the disabled are
all examples of biblical misuse."
At 9 am., Equality Ride first met
at a church in Lynchburg, Va. The
principles of a nonviolent protest
were reviewed, before the group of
about 100 people rallied outside the
university. At noon, when 24 of the
protestors attempted to walk on cam-pus,
they were quickly arrested and
taken to the Lynchburg district jail
building.
According to Equality Ride's
LOGAN YORK/THE CAROLINIAN
UNCG Student Matt Hill Comer, who was arrested for trespassing with
other protestors at Liberty University, Va.
website, 34 young adult students,
have taken a semester off to visit 19
schools across the nation in a period
of 51 days.
The second stop for Equality
Ride was Pat Robertson's University.
Robertson, a colleague of Falwell's,
also decided to have the group ar-rested.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Equality
Ride faced even more arrests, though
in both occurrences the number ar-rested
was much less than the 24 at
Liberty University.
Texas A&M University, which has
the largest military cadet program, al-lowed
the protestors on campus. No
arrests were made. Military schools
are on Equality Ride's agenda because
they too have a policy to turn away
openly gay students.
"For a gay or lesbian student,"
Comer said, "the fact that someone
totally unaffiliated would risk being
arrested - that's going to mean a lot to
those students who have no voice on
these campuses."
Comer said the catch phrase for
Equality Ride is, "Learn from history
and end religious oppression."
He added, "If Jesus Christ had
been the Chancellor of Liberty Uni-versity,
he would've let us on campus
that day."
The protest aired March 25,
on MTV. More information about
Equality Ride can be found at:http://
www.equalityride.com
Campus Policy Battle over
Free Speech Zones Ends
Janlne Camara
Staff Writer
Freedom of expression has been
synonymous with college and uni-versity
settings in America for almost
half a century. The heritage of college
protest finds its roots in demonstra-tions
at Howard University where
late Black Panther Stokley Carmi-chael
attended school, Columbia
University where students protested
against the Vietnam War and now at
UNCG where students last November
and this past January demonstrated
against university policy.
During Mid-November of last
year, Allison Jaynes, head of UNCG's
College Libertarians, organized a
peaceful protest consisting of about
40 people on the lawn of Jackson Li-brary.
The organization was assem-bled
in dissent against the university's
Facility Use Policy, which detailed
that outdoor assemblies by affiliated
or unaffiliated groups must convene
in two "free speech and assembly ar-eas,"
located on the east lawns of the
Elliot University Center and the Foust
Building. The College Libertarians
founded their protest on their belief
that protest zoning is repressive.
"We felt that [university policy]
[was] unduly restrictive, especially
compared to other colleges and uni-versities
around the country," said
Jaynes. She and fellow UNCG stu-dent
Robert Sinnott were charged
with Student conduct code violations
after refusing to leave the protest area.
Their charges were dropped on Janu-ary
13, 2006 after the Foundation
The Human Race brings
communities together to
help raise money
Tye Harris
Staff Writer
The Volunteer Center of Greens-boro
put on their 12th annual Hu-man
Race on Saturday March 25 at
the Grimsley High School stadium.
The Human Race, whose theme is
"Bringing the Community Together"
is a 5k run/walk held to raise money
for local nonprofit organizations. The
event started at 9:30am on March 25
and lasted until noon that day.
The Human Race welcomes
children, adults, families and anyone
else that wants to support their cause.
The event raises money for over 135
nonprofit organizations. These orga-nizations
keep 75%-85% of the mon-ey
raised, while the rest goes to The
Volunteer Center of Greensboro.
This year's race was success-ful,
with a good turnout and a lot of
money raised.
"We had at least 4,500 people
come out, which we think was very
good, considering it was cooler this
year than last" said Amy Lytle, Assis-tant
Director at the Volunteer Center
of Greensboro.
"We think we raised between
$230,000 and $240,000, which, again,
is very close to what we raised last
year, and money continues to come
in every day," added Lytle.
This year's race will help over
128 nonprofit organizations, accord-ing
to Lytle. However as more money
is counted, the race will benefit even
more nonprofit organizations.
For last year's race, around 5,500
people participated, raising approxi-mately
$250,000 for the 135+ non-profit
organizations.
The event started at 9:30 a.m.
with an opening ceremony. The run-ners
were the first to start the race,
with the walkers starting a few min-
SEE HUMAN RACE PAGE THREE
for Individual Rights in Education
(FIRE), a civil rights organization
that protects the rights of students on
college campuses, became involved
and wrote to Chancellor Sullivan and
University Counsel.
On November 14, 2005, two
days before the protest, school offi-cials
began reviewing the Facility Use
Policy. This came after University
Counsel Lucien "Skip" Capone noti-fied
the Chancellor in September of
a recent legal decision at the Univer-isty
of Maryland that raised questions
about the policy. Capone and other
university officials, as well as students
Ryan Radford and Matt Hill Comer
were part of a task force formed by
the Chancellor to modify the policy.
"The primary difference is that
under the old policy if students want-ed
to have an assembly they needed to
go to the designated areas and notify
the Director of Student Life...now
they don't. The only thing they have
to do is notify the police 12 hours
ahead of time," said Capone.
The old policy also required stu-dents
to produce written notification
to the Office of Student Life if they
wanted to protest somewhere besides
the established Free Speech zones.
The new policy was approved by the
Chancellor two weeks ago.
"I did it more-so for other stu-dents,"
said Comer of his involvement
with the taskforce. "I do feel strongly
that free speech should be honored
and never abridged, and I'm just glad
that the university now has a policy
that is going to be a good balance by
the way student's right to assemble
and another student's right to receive
an education," continued Comer.
On January 26, 2006, the Col-lege
Libertarians joined forces with
the College Republicans and College
Democrats to protest University Pol-icy
again.
"We were simply out there to
show that groups of different ideo-logical
leanings could come together
for a common cause...I think we'll
see more diversity of groups coming
out to express themselves," said Jaynes
of the policy change.
Results of
Second SGA
Election In
Melissa Kurland
Staff Writer
A second Student Goverment Asso-ciation
election resulted in no change
from the first, with Jonae Wartel win-ning
the Presidency and Vice-Presi-dential
incumbant Donald Hughes
retaining his position.
The UNCG student government
association re-posted the 2006-2007
election after the initial results were
called into question. According to the
SGA's public statement,
"The UNCG Student government
Association's Student Senate decided
on March 14, 2006 to hold new elec-tions
based upon evidence that not
all students had been given the equal
opportunity in which to use their
voice in choosing their next student
leaders."
Reportedly during the initial elec-tion
graduate students were unable to
cast their vote due to internet error.
"In order to get the word out, a
campus wide e-mail was sent out,
flyers were hung, a message was sent
in organizational announcements,
the Carolinian did an article, and
sandwich boards were painted," said
Angie Wohner in the SGA's Monthly
Report
Regarding the SGA's controversial
meeting two weeks ago, which was
filled with racial tension, the SGA
public statement said,
"Although there were issues regard-ing
race, issues on which we continue
to work and create meaningful, posi-tive
and forward-moving dialogue,
the decision for holding new elections
was in no way related to those racial
matters."
There were four candidates for the
SGA presidency, two for vice presi-dency,
three for senior senators, seven
for junior senators, six sophomore
senators, and three residential student
senators.
Running for vice president was orig-
SEE SGA PAGE TWO
_